{"id":1564612,"date":"2022-07-21T11:54:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T15:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1564612"},"modified":"2022-07-21T12:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T16:04:20","slug":"democratic-senate-candidate-may-miss-a-word-or-slur-two-together-after-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-senate-candidate-may-miss-a-word-or-slur-two-together-after-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Senate Candidate May \u2018Miss A Word\u2019 Or \u2018Slur Two Together\u2019 After Stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocratic-senate-candidate-may-miss-a-word-or-slur-two-together-after-stroke%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1564612&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-05-02T022735Z_1576591735_RC2NYT9CZR9U_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION-PENNSYLVANIA-scaled-e1658416400606.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman insists he is still fit to run as the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate despite admitting to persisting symptoms after his stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman, who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/15\/pennsylvania-senate-primary-john-fetterman-stroke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suffered<\/a> a stroke four days before the Democratic Pennsylvania primary in May, said in an interview Wednesday that his hearing was most affected by the stroke, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/politics-state\/2022\/07\/20\/john-fetterman-health-update-stroke-condition-us-senate-campaign-democratic-candidate-dr-mehmet-oz\/stories\/202207200082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman told the Post-Gazette he feels ready to start campaigning again, and \u201cthe only issue is that my hearing is still a little bit not perfect.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/10\/fetterman-jet-fossil-fuel-donations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED:\u00a0Fetterman Spent Thousands On CO2-Emitting Jet Travel Despite Pledge To Boycott Fossil Fuel Donations, Records Show)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI might miss a word every now and then in a conversation, or I might slur two words,\u201d Fetterman told the Post-Gazette.\u00a0Fetterman said he feels the slurring and other issues are \u201cinfrequent\u201d and that he is \u201c100% able to run fully and to win,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cHe struggles with hearing sometimes, he said, and may \u201cmiss a word\u201d or \u201cslur two together,\u201d but he said it doesn\u2019t happen often and that he\u2019s working with a speech therapist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uh that doesn\u2019t sound ok <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OMZr1BbvDy\">https:\/\/t.co\/OMZr1BbvDy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ComfortablySmug\/status\/1549920819043868674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPhysically, I have no limits,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/johnfetterman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220603-134410.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> the Post-Gazette. \u201cAnd mentally, again, as I mentioned before, the only issue is that my hearing is still a little bit not perfect\u2026 Truthfully, my life is very normal, other than just not doing campaign events right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman used closed captioning while giving the interview over the phone to avoid missing any words, and the campaign gave the outlet a 20-minute interview time limit, the Post-Gazette reported.<\/p>\n<p>Recently Dr. Mehmet Oz, Fetterman\u2019s Republican opposition for the seat, vacated by retiring Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, highlighted Fetterman\u2019s noticeable absence from the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">wya \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xT6sa4imqM\">pic.twitter.com\/xT6sa4imqM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Mehmet Oz (@DrOz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrOz\/status\/1548364590257414144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrOz\/status\/1549488748022448129?s=20&#038;t=X0XVMkIzV4L9z1UxQ5V--w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a>, \u201cText \u2018LOST\u2019 to 26771 to help find John Fetterman!\u201d July 19, and started <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrOz\/status\/1549856445717430273?s=20&#038;t=X0XVMkIzV4L9z1UxQ5V--w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posting<\/a> daily calendars counting the days since Fetterman was last seen campaigning in public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I might slur two words&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}